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08/12/05, 10:47 PM
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Snow predicted for tonight! Yikes!!
I just saw the post about growing seasons and I though "growing seasons, i dont got no silly growing season" LOL While this is not the first time we have had snow in early August it never fails to take me by surprise! Headed out right now to close the coop up so my 2 week old chicks and their mom wont be blasted with cold air! Gotta really love where you live to put up with weather like this thats for sure.
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08/12/05, 10:50 PM
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08/12/05, 11:01 PM
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I hear ya sisterpine! Just got used to the 100* temps and today in South central MT it only got up to 51*!!! Can't believe I had to wear a long sleeved shirt in August. And tomorrow may be even colder! 
Hope my garden survives...
Steph
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08/12/05, 11:03 PM
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I already went down and kissed my garden goodbye  . It is hard to grow things here on the mountain even in a green house, I dont have one tomato yet! Been and odd year all the way around.
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08/12/05, 11:17 PM
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Wow - I got goosebumps reading your posts! It was about 95 here today - it's finally cooled down to 76.
You Montana folk have stronger constitution than I !! brrrrr
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08/13/05, 01:22 AM
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Wow, that is amazing. I love snow, but I'm sure it is disappointing to not see your garden finish.
Here in Oregon, I would love to go from summer to winter and skip all the rain, lol.
Keep warm!
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08/13/05, 08:40 AM
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High today 53, low tonight 36. It will frost tonight, planning on covering my plants early. The only thing that saved us last night was the cloud cover.
No snow yet, but one year we had it the 4th of Aug. I have this horrid feeling that my growning season ( that didn't start until the 3rd week of June this year) is almost over.
Cheryl
who is sending children out for firewood, used up what was in the house last night!
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08/13/05, 08:48 AM
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Wow! that is BAD! You should try starting your plants earlier indoors (probably already do don't you?) ...but I suppose that only helps so much, when you are getting snow in August!
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08/13/05, 08:50 AM
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Herself puts out a garden some years but it is usually an exercise in futility.
It's a good thing she likes fried green tomatoes, and doesn't care for corn or pumpkins.
The talk on the weather stations is for temps around 40 tonight, but at least it isn't snowing like it is on sisterpine. 
PS - I don't know what the temperature was when I got up at 5a.m., but it's 57 degrees as I post this. The fire in the cook stove really feels good this morning. One of our milk customers said we got down to 35 last night, she liked the fire in the cook stove too.
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Last edited by Haggis; 08/13/05 at 08:57 AM.
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08/13/05, 09:06 AM
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Snow!!!! It is so hot here you can fry eggs outside 
I am totally amazed that you folks up there are about to have snow.
We don't even have winters anymore. It will get cold (Ha Ha!) for a little while and then the next day it will be 70's or higher.
I lived in Tulsa for a while. I left Tulsa to come home. The Tulsa temp. was 30 and the good old temp. at home was 79.
I guess if I ever want to experience winter again I will have to do the reverse of what some of the "snowbirds" do. I'll go north. There are a lot of kids here who have no clue what snow is.
One other thing here that drives me nuts. The department stores have already started putting out the "fall" clothes long sleeves, sweaters and such. It is nuts. It never gets cold enough to wear those things. We are still wearing shorts and cool clothing through December and January.
Y'all whine about the cold and those of us down here whine about the heat.  We just can't be happy can we.
Blessings,
Rosemary
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08/13/05, 09:37 AM
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We're getting some thunderstorms here.My roof is in the middle of being redone from a storm on the July 4th weekend. All of the tarpaper is down over the old shingles,so I don't think that we'll have any leaks, but I'm ready to see this over with. We are having cooler temps.
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08/13/05, 09:42 AM
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Woke this morning to just a dusting of snow on the ground. I was so happy it was not a "foot" of snow that I did a little gig coming down the stairs and twisted an ankle LOL. It's not bad enough to keep me indoors and away from land clearing duty but I am gimping a bit and DH is appropriately feeling sorry for me NOT! LOL welcome to fall in the rocky mountains!
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08/13/05, 09:51 AM
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Wow, in some ways I'm jealous. We've had temps here at home in S.W. MO at and over 100 since early July..so 50's and 30's kind of sound nice right now. Though I know they are a real bummer to you all.
Was just wondering... was it a mild winter last year for you all? With snow in August are you all thinking you might have a harsh winter this year?
Stay warm and well folks.
God Bless
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08/13/05, 09:58 AM
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WE GOT RAIN!! It's about time; you practically trip over the cracks and we have good ground where we are now! I think (concerning the early snow) we are all going to have to get used to summers that stink like this one did; climate change is here to stay. My garden was horrible; didn't even get a decent picking of beans and we used drip. Grasshoppers got to them (uncommon for lst picking) and sevined to boot for nothing. Tomatoes got verticulum wilt, cukes OK though and still cranking out. Picklers went to the wayside and I have a killer refrigerator pickle recipe but no go this year. Have you tried bringing in your green tomatoes and layering them on newspaper and covering them up with paper? Tried that last year and had great results - ripened beautifully. No fall garden for you folks either sounds like. I do believe it is going to be an early and cold/snowy one this year. Have 1st cousins in air force (one is weather specialist) and said it is going to be "volatile" this winter. Whatever; everybody get to canning and saving those seeds or buying them ahead of time on sale (that's what we do with some). Time to get those hatches battened down and dream the dream of a new planting year with lessons we learned this year...
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08/13/05, 09:59 AM
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Wow, now that would just depress me to have snow in aug!!! michigan had a rough winter last year, so we were sooo happy to see the summer, but this summer has been very hot, we've had above average temps in the 90's.. I don't care for that much either..But i'am looking forward to fall, love the smell of fall and cooler days..
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08/13/05, 09:59 AM
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We did, in fact, have a very mild winter last time. I am not sure what this winter will be but for the past month the old timers have been talking about and early cold winter. That would be really great since pine bark beetles are desimating our forests which then catch fire and you know how that ends up. To kill the beetles we need 3 plus days of -30/40 degrees! Not that I want it that cold but I would put up and shut up if it would kill the beetles and just maybe it could get that cold when I did not have to snowmobile down the mountain to go to work LOL.
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08/13/05, 01:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Haggis
Herself puts out a garden some years but it is usually an exercise in futility.
It's a good thing she likes fried green tomatoes, and doesn't care for corn or pumpkins.
The talk on the weather stations is for temps around 40 tonight, but at least it isn't snowing like it is on sisterpine.
PS - I don't know what the temperature was when I got up at 5a.m., but it's 57 degrees as I post this. The fire in the cook stove really feels good this morning. One of our milk customers said we got down to 35 last night, she liked the fire in the cook stove too. |
actually many believe that Jack the Ripper in reality was a surgeon.
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08/13/05, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted by shawnee
WE GOT RAIN!! It's about time; you practically trip over the cracks and we have good ground where we are now! I think (concerning the early snow) we are all going to have to get used to summers that stink like this one did; climate change is here to stay. My garden was horrible; didn't even get a decent picking of beans and we used drip. Grasshoppers got to them (uncommon for lst picking) and sevined to boot for nothing. Tomatoes got verticulum wilt, cukes OK though and still cranking out. Picklers went to the wayside and I have a killer refrigerator pickle recipe but no go this year. Have you tried bringing in your green tomatoes and layering them on newspaper and covering them up with paper? Tried that last year and had great results - ripened beautifully. No fall garden for you folks either sounds like. I do believe it is going to be an early and cold/snowy one this year. Have 1st cousins in air force (one is weather specialist) and said it is going to be "volatile" this winter. Whatever; everybody get to canning and saving those seeds or buying them ahead of time on sale (that's what we do with some). Time to get those hatches battened down and dream the dream of a new planting year with lessons we learned this year...
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thats great advice. what does the newspaper do though?
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08/13/05, 02:29 PM
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We're right behind you here in Colorado. Sweatshirts and turtleneck tops today -- very very chilly and it's 1:00 in the afternoon. The aspen trees aren't far from turning and our first mountain snow is days away.
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08/13/05, 02:57 PM
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Here in West Michigan we have had one of the hottest summers I can remember. Day after day after day for weeks on end of 80 to 95 degree heat. We are NOT USED TO IT! Unseasonably hot and dry for us up here.
Quite the opposite from last summer, which was unseasonably cold for our neck of the woods. Lows in mid to upper 40 through out much of July and August, with daytime highs rarely reaching 70 degrees. Had to turn on LP furnace several times in July/August last year, never remember doing that before in those months.
Looking for a mild winter this year.................I hope! I often plow snow free for some friends and family, but gasoline prices are going to limit that free activity for sure. I'm worried about LP prices, we use about 2000 gallons a year for heat.
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